Team work makes a good race.

The Second Annual is over. Today there are 90 people limping on their way to work. The race wasn't easy for anybody, especially for the team Calleva and Calleva staff that put almost 6 month of preparation into this event. Everything worked out very smooth. Dima directed the Expert course, while Karen took full responsibility for the Sport category together with her medical director duties. Vlad appeared at the most unpredictable locations of the race taken photos of the racers and checked that all flags and stickers are still in place. We managed to check-in all 40 teams in 45 minutes, thanks to our wonderful team of volunteers. We bused all racers to the start, we moved all boats to the beginning of the paddling leg, and we moved all bikes to and from transition areas. Total of 30 people spend 12 hours and more supporting this big event.
Thanks to all races for coming and taking this tough challenge. Thanks to all spectators for supporting our racers!

2009 Calleva Race is sold out.

40 teams, 90 racers are crazy enough to spend next Sunday in woods and swamps. We are all ready to go and hope to have good weather next weekend. Here is one secret image from the start area of the race.

Are you ready for THAT?

Racing news.

1) Mark and Sara are back from Sweden, where they compete in the Explore Sweden Monster Adventure Race 7 days, 1000 km. Read team YogaSlackers 18 pages race report here. It's absolutely unreal!

2) Jonathan Neely from GOALS ARA published a dramatic story about the team adventure in the Untamed New England Race week ago. Links to the videos from the race are on the Grant's blog.

3) This weekend Brian and Steven vetted the Calleva Race Course. Dima, Vlad, Karen, and Val did support and transitions. Report is here, photos are on the Calleva Race blog:

Rain, rain, every day...

Val is trying to get ready for PQ in 2 months. South Dakota is a very dry place, 200 oz of water are mandatory on some PQ trekking sections. Here in Maryland  for the last two weeks we had continues rain with short brake for the weekend. Trails remain wet and water fills our shoes. 8 miles of trail run and 8 miles of biking was a good warm up for the next month races.

By the way, this trail will be a part of the Calleva Race this year. Any idea where is it?

Calleva Race fills up fast.

More than 2 month before the race and we are almost half full! It's nice to see last year racers comming back, new athlets are also welcome.

Register earlier to reserve your spot. Team roster is available online now.

The photo is from the 2008 Calleva race by Vladimir Bukalo Photograpy.

Web updates and snakes from the race course.

We updated the Race Results and the Team section in the top menu. It's almost one year to the new Calleva team. We will skip big races for the next few months, but there are few short races in our plans. 

Last weekend field work was highlighted by this beautiful snake

Three other sisters of this beauty absorbed sun light just feet from the trail. Hopefully they will go deeper into the swamp in August.

Calleva Race registration open!

The process started. This year the whole Calleva team is involved in preparations. 

We are working on two parallel courses for advanced and new racers. To see all details and to register, please go to the race website: http://callevarace.blogspot.com/

Calleva race website is on.

It's still draft version and will be modified before a public announcement, but it's there and it works! We decided to base it on Google blog (again). It's free and easy, so we can spend more money on races and gear. If you follow our blog, please, send your comments and we'll try to improve the new blog. The link to the race blog is also on the top menu. The "How to..." section is postponed for now.